(A) The joint committee on agency rule review shall advise and assist state agencies in preparing revised inventories of regulatory restrictions and shall advise and assist state agencies in achieving specified percentage reductions in regulatory restrictions in the Administrative Code in accordance with sections 121.95, 121.951, 121.952, 121.953, and 121.954 of the Revised Code.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 101.354

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59

(B)(1) Not later than June 15, 2022, the executive director of the joint committee shall prepare a report aggregating the base inventories received from state agencies under section 121.95 of the Revised Code.

(2) Beginning in 2023, not later than the fifteenth day of December each year, the executive director of the joint committee shall prepare an historical report aggregating the reports received from state agencies for the preceding fiscal year. In the report, the executive director also shall describe the work of the joint committee over the preceding fiscal year with respect to reduction of regulatory restrictions and shall indicate, out of the total number of regulatory restrictions inventoried by state agencies, the percentage by which state agencies have reduced those regulatory restrictions. The report also shall provide recommendations for statutory changes, where appropriate, brought to the attention of the joint committee as contributing to the adoption of regulatory restrictions.

(3) The executive director shall submit the report required under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section to the members of the joint committee, which shall publish the report on its web site and transmit copies of the report electronically to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate.

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